PC won't boot up - help!

josh3190

josh3190

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Hi everyone,

My PC wouldn't boot previously and I wanted to eventually downsize, I put an mATX mobo in today, ASRock H61M-DG3

I went to boot it up after putting it all back together again and it now won't boot up properly,

When the PC gets to the 'Starting Windows' and then a blue screen flashes up before then going to another screen saying that windows can't start properly and I have two options,

Repairs windows (recommended) and Start Windows Normally,

Selecting repair windows it then tries to fix the issue, fails and then asks to send details to microsoft and then 'finish' to shut down the PC,

Is it a problem with the boot SSD that I use? maybe that has given up on me?

Any suggestions/info would be greatly appreciated!
 
make sure the sata ports in the bios are set to ACHI, a lot of motherboards use IDE as the default.

if your previous mobo was set to achi and this 1 is not it will cause issues
 
are you using the sata 2 or sata 3 ports? sometimes in the bios these options are seperate

did you manage to get any information from the blue screen at all?

maybe try with 1 stick of ram, double check that the CPU cooler has not been tightened up too much as well
 
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Hi ED209,

I am using sata 2 ports, the new ASRock mATX doesn't have sata3 ports, the blue screen flashes up and goes in an instant so can't get any info from that,

I will try with one stick of RAM out and loosen the CPU cooler and see if it changes anything,

Thanks for all the help
 
Tried with only one stick of RAM and loosening the CPU cooler but that didn't work either, another person suggested having to completely reinstall windows due to changing the mobo...
 
maybe the only option left, i have changed mobo, ram and processor from AMD before to INTEL and had no issues.

OS re install should fix the issue if you cannot run the os repair
 
Windows 7 or 8? choose the option to stop windows rebooting automatically in the event of a blue screen so you can read the message.

If it's a stop 7b error, you may need to reinstall with the correct drivers, or if you wish you can inject them via *booting only* from the install media and using notepad/regedit to add the drivers from usb (assuming usb functions from there, usb 2.0 should).

I have made many virtual machines this way by adding the vmware drivers.
 
Hi guys,

It doesn't start in safe mode it says windows can't boot and asks to start windows and repair,

It's Windows 7, where is this option to stop windows rebooting automatically? I can't reinstall anything as I can't get to windows in the first place

Also tried disconnecting every drive except the OS drive, it recognises the drive in the BIOS but still doesn't boot properly,

Think a windows reinstall may be the only way to go?
 
ED209 said:
maybe the only option left, i have changed mobo, ram and processor from AMD before to INTEL and had no issues.

OS re install should fix the issue if you cannot run the os repair
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If you changed from AMD to Intel and it booted up you were very lucky.

I have found the few times I have tried this, that it always blue screened as it starts to assume what it needs to load to get windows loaded asap.

Only time I have managed it is by a generalised sysprepping.

As a safe bet I always reformat windows now during a board exchange, also means I get rid of all the annoying software that was included with the old mobo (temp monitoring fan speed control etc) anyway :)
 
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